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I guess my friends were weird, but our idea of doing a teenage prank with phone calls was to use our two phone lines (we had 2nd phone lines for our modems) to
by shiroiushi 2y ago
I guess my friends were weird, but our idea of doing a teenage prank with phone calls was to use our two phone lines (we had 2nd phone lines for our modems) to set up conference calls between each other, and then each of us would call a pizza shop (I might call Domino's, and he'd call Papa John's), and then mute ourselves and laugh while the pizza shop workers would argue about who called who. The smart ones would immediately catch on and say "I think someone is playing a prank on us" and hang up quickly, but the dumb ones would get into an argument with each other.
When Caller ID became the norm, it completely ruined phone pranks like this.
- ghssds 2y ago*67 could have enabled your shenanigan for years.
- Loughla 2y agoIt still works, as evidenced by the very active prank calls my neighbor's son plays on my wife and I. He is very sweet and sheltered, so it's a good outlet. He literally tried the Prince Albert in a can one. That hasn't been relevant for like what, 50 years?
- shiroiushi 2y agoBy the time Caller ID became ubiquitous, we were past the time when we found that prank really funny. Also, *67 also caused a lot of people to simply not answer calls that were blocked this way.